radix
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Two products - a galangal powder common in Asian cuisine and a radix aconiti kusnezoffii powder traditionally used in Chinese medicine - have been pulled off retail shelves.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022
“Radical” comes from the Latin radix, or “root.”
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2018
Radish also comes from radix - though its route into English is uncertain.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2015
Gunzh is the radix for plant; Tig for tree; Asee for animal, &c.; and either by suffixing or prefixing syllabical increments, the terminology of the three great departments of nature is formed.
From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Two families started off—one might say simultaneously—from the same radix, for the difference in point of years was but that which naturally divided the father and the son.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
The eldest child very dirty; the second, glands; the third, knock-kneed, pigeon chest; very feeble, enlarged radices.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Lond, skip, flaska, sumar, hamar, ketill, dal, are clearly the radices respectively of land, ship, flask, summer, hammer, kettle, dale.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
I took pleasure in finding out the roots or radixes of words, and from time to time I added foreign dictionaries to my little library.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
